LEE HUB - INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY LIBRARY

Registered charity 1193198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF LEE HUB, LEE COMMUNITY LIBRARY, LEE COMMUNITY LIBRARY AND HUB, LEE HUB

Lee Hub Independent Community Library aims to deliver a Community Library, Community Cafe and meetings space for social activities, health & wellbeing programmes.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS WITHIN HAMPSHIRE WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF AGE, RACE, GENDER, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RELIGION OR OTHER PROTECTED CHARACTERISTIC:- 3.1.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF AN INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY LIBRARY FACILITY PROVING BOOKS, LEARNING MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, INFORMATION SERVICE AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES. 3.1.2 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.3.1.3 TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. 3.1.4 TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY BUILDING [“LEE HUB”] AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A BUILDING FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gosport, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reports a surplus for the year and holds total cash funds of £46,483.65 at year-end. The trustees maintain a reserves account with a balance of £42,984.55, designated for contingencies such as building maintenance and energy costs. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which found no material matters requiring attention.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Robert Whitehousechair
• Gemma Broster
• Jean Bird
• Kathleen Susan Giles BA, MA
• Murray Purves
• Peter Cornish
• Robert Carr
• Wendy Davies

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUCKBY LIBRARY & HUB.

• BUCKBY LIBRARY & HUB income £79k
• THE OLD LIBRARY income £31k
• LIBERTY TEA ROOMS AND COMMUNITY HUB income £225k
• NETTLEHAM COMMUNITY HUB income £107k
• KIRBY MUXLOE LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY HUB income £30k
• CATTERICK, RICHMOND AND COLBURN COMMUNITY LIBRARIES income £75k

Side by side with its peers

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